Selecting places

The markers show the hottest places on the map, color-coded by popularity.

Change the number of place markers shown as you like.

The sizes selection helps to find less crowded places: it will simply put a limit to the population of places shown.
This limit has effect only outside cities.

Use the place type filter to find places with a tag cloud containing the word (beach, church, castle, etc) you enter
(capital-letter tags are more generic)

Use the top sights selection to find specific top places in a city: museums, shops etc.

The all places selection shows both the "standard" and your own saved places by default. Set to "standard" to
eliminate your rankings and saved places. Set to "my map" to only show the places you have added.

Add a new place

Please click on the map to choose a location for your new place.

Planning a trip

The trip planner assists you by calculating times and routes. It
can even give an automatic recommendation which you can edit to your liking.

Click on a place marker to add a place to the trip, click on it again to remove it from
the trip.

The start location of the trip can be moved around by clicking
on it. The cursor will turn into a crosshair: click on the map again to
pick the new start location.

The planner will draw the route on the map. Red color shows the part of the
route where walking is the preferred way of moving around, blue color marks
driving. In some cases the route
to a place will be in grey - in that case it may be difficult to reach the
location in question.

The "recommend" button picks popular places in the area and automatically
adds them
to the current trip. It is always possible to manually change the trip by removing and
adding places - click on the markers to do that. The "clear" button deletes
the trip and lets you start over from scratch.

The current trip can be examined by clicking on the "show" button which
opens a new window. From there you may re-arrange the order of the places
in the trip.

First click on the map to select
the starting spot for the new trip: shown as a gray "S" marker.

Click on the markers to add or remove them
from a trip.

Click on "show" to display the current itinerary.

Click on "recommend" to create a short trip automatically.

You can change
the duration to let the recommender create longer trips.

Trip itinerary

Places I have saved

My Maps

Discover beautiful places

The heatmap shows the places people like, based on the number of
panoramio
photos at each place in the world. The dark areas have few photos, the red areas have more and the
yellow areas have a large number of photos geotagged.

The hottest places have markers linking photos, streetview, wikipedia, wikivoyage, foursquare and google plus articles
about the site. The place names are selected by the wikipedia readership numbers and foursquare checkins. Area populations are based on the geonames database.

Street level heatmaps are available for top 15000 places in the world, sorted by the number of photos in an area
of a size of a few square kilometers around the place center. The popularity ranking of places in high-res area maps
is computed by combining place hotness with popularity rankings from wikipedia, foursquare and
real-time google places selection.

Ceate your own sightseeing maps by simply selecting, adding and editing the places you like!

Create your own map

Create your own sightseeing maps to share with others: just add your own places, descriptions, links and photos anywhere.
We store the photos at imgur.com.

You can create as many maps as you wish. Each new map will initially contain either all the "standard" places
visible on the map (select "standard view" from "new maps") or none (select "empty map"). You can later remove
or edit all the selected places: replace their default photos, descriptions etc.

Use the "settings" link after the map to change the name, set whether the heatmap overlay is visible or not
and whether the map is
visible to everybody, just your friends or only you.

Click the "share" button after the map name to get the link to share your map.

Click on the place names to edit or delete them. Clicking the arrow before the place just shows the place.